Wiki - mermaid & plantuml support
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Love the wiki functionality.
It would be great to get support built-in or via user extensions for mermaid (https://mermaidjs.github.io/) and plantuml (https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml).
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22 comments
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Sean Wright
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PlantUML or Mermaid would be an awesome feature addition.
VS Code has support for both of these technologies, but since Mermaid is rendered in VS Code the markup isn't really usable in the Repos UI.
PlantUML can easily be exported to a png or svg which gets around the rendering issue by committing the generated assets to the repository (repo or wiki) in Repos. But this still isn't ideal.
The best option would likely be to support Mermaid for Markdown files and let the browser do the rendering when viewing the file in the Repos UI.
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Thorsten
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The integration of mermaid would be a great improvement of the Wiki (and its not so perfect MD editor) and would be one argument to migrate to DevOps.
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Marco
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please add this feature!
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Marcos Borges
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It would be spectacular to support the mermaid. It would be a huge insinuating to use.
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Pedro Savelis
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Mermaid Markdown has an excelent, easy syntax and it's widely used here in Brazil.
Our developers would be very happy with this improvement since it's very confortable to write and share in this format. -
Anonymous
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This will be the killer feature for the technical documentation.
Absolute must have. -
Anonymous
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Please add this feature.
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Ovan Crone
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Both would be great, but mermaid looks super simple to ship being a JavaScript package. Please make this happen sooner than later, running a build task with the cli (needs chromium 135mb) is a waste of my build minutes, but the only reasonable other solution...
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Anonymous
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Would be really good!
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Graham
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Yes Please!!!
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Dantastic
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Documentation as code - FTW
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Todd Leonhardt
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Support for diagrams in VSTS Wikis would make them much more competitive with existing full-featured Wiki tools such as DocuWiki, MediaWiki, and Confluence.
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Job Louage
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```mermaid
graph LR
A[Flowchart Support] -->|Result| B(Team Foundation tsunami)
B --> C{Let me think}
C -->|1| D[Happy users]
C -->|2| E[More User]
C -->|3| F[Increased Popularity]
``` -
Daniel Gut
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support for diagrams in markdown (wiki) would be awesome!
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Anonymous
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Hope this get's implemented. This would help me and my company to utilize VSTS more.
I love Mermaid :) -
Emil Backlund
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Having VSTS support mermaid and/or plantuml would so great!
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Andrew Jones
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Mermaid looks very useful
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Enrico
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👍 Mermaid Support
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dkatwork
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PlantUml inlined within Markdown wonderfully solves how to create and maintain docs that require diagrams as part of their content: use-case diagrams, architecture diagrams, data diagrams, etc.
VSTS wiki auto-rendering PlantUml code, **especially** when PlantUml code is inlined within markdown file, would be the "holy grail" of software documentation (IMO).
With this feature, I only have to maintain ONE Markdown file (with inline PlantUml) in our source repo. Have the VSTS wiki use relative reference to this file in source repo, and voila: easy to edit using VS Code (w/PlantUml plugins for rendering previews), easy to commit docs alongside source code for that product, and VSTS wiki handles the publication and rendering for readers.
Sweet: what a killer combo this would be.
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Paco de la Cruz
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PlantUML would be an awesome addition to VSTS Wiki!